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Men’s soccer: No. 1 Creighton overcame a halftime deficit to force overtime Friday, then scored in the game’s 106th minute to win 2-1 at Old Dominion on the ODU/Stihl Soccer Classic’s first night. Bruno Castro netted the winning goal with 4:23 left in the second OT period before 2,106 fans, the largest regular-season crowd at ODU Soccer Stadium since a 2006 match against No. 4 Maryland (3,331). “It was a very entertaining match for the crowd. I thought we had the better of the first half and I thought Creighton had the better of the second half,” ODU coach Alan Dawson said on odusports.com. “I think at the end, what really hurt us was the fact that we...

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No. 1 Creighton overcame a halftime deficit to force overtime Friday, then scored in the game’s 106th minute to win 2-1 at Old Dominion on the ODU/Stihl Soccer Classic’s first night. Bruno Castro netted the winning goal with 4:23 left in...

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